Author Archives: lizcameron

Twitter banned briefly, again: Her kuşun eti yenmez

Posted on April 8, 2015 by lizcameron

Turks are truly mad for Twitter. According to the New Yorker’s review of data from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “fourteen per cent of Turkey’s eighty million people use Twitter—a relatively high figure for a country where only forty-five per cent of … Continue reading →

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Bread, salt and love: Happy Valentine’s Day from the Karagöz puppets (and Nazim Hikmet)

Posted on February 14, 2015 by lizcameron

Happy Valentine’s Day to all – the Karagöz puppets’ gift to you today is the sharing of a Nazim Hikmet poem which likens love to dipping bread into salt…relayed here in English and then in Turkish… I love you like … Continue reading →

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Izmir köfte on a cold winter’s day

Posted on February 11, 2015 by lizcameron

Snow crazy! That’s what those puppets are.  They are afraid to venture out into the 60+ inches of snow we have seen in the past month.  For little puppets made of camel hide colored with vegetable dyes, I suppose the … Continue reading →

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